Correcting the truck back

With the side of the truck in perspective, let's work on the back. …We've already split the side and the back into two separate layers, so this …shouldn't be a difficult task. We'll switch to the original layer, which …now holds only the back of the truck. So let's switch to the Move tool and go …into Free Transform. Once again, we can hold down the Cmd key …on a Mac, the Ctrl key on a PC to adjust each of these corner handles independently.…

So let's grab the top one and lift it up. I'm also going hold the Shift key to make …sure it moves purely vertically. We need to make this slightly wider, so …let's pull it across. And now it's a little bit to high so …we'll Drag the whole thing down a bit. We're starting to see a little bit of the …back ground through this, and that's because the edge of the back of the truck …is pinned not by the side where it meets the side of the truck.…

But by the edge of this lamp. So let's nudge the whole thing over to …the right. So we just see the tree through it. …

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1/24/2011

Even with perfect mastery of all Adobe Photoshop's tools and filters, unless you get the perspective right, your montages will always look a little off. In this workshop, author and expert Steve Caplin teaches how to work with horizons, vanishing lines, and Photoshop's extraordinary Vanishing Point filter. Plus, learn how to adapt a photograph so that it fits in with the perspective of any scene in which you want to place it.